The Imposter (2012 film)

The Imposter
Directed byBart Layton
Produced byDimitri Doganis
CinematographyErik Alexander Wilson
Lynda Hall
Edited byAndrew Hulme
Music byAnne Nikitin
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 23 January 2012 (2012-01-23) (Sundance)
  • 24 August 2012 (2012-08-24) (UK)
Running time
99 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2 million

The Imposter is a 2012 documentary film about the 1997 case of a French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin, who pretended to be Nicholas Patrick Barclay, an American boy who had disappeared in Texas at the age of 13 in 1994. The film was directed by Bart Layton. It mainly includes interviews with Bourdin but also with members of Barclay's family, as well as archive television news footage and reenacted dramatic sequences.